Dr. Kriska is a physical activity epidemiologist actively involved in diabetes and other chronic disease research. She has extensive experience with many National Institute of Health single and multi-site efforts in the areas of behavioral lifestyle intervention and physical activity assessment. These clinical trials focus on women and health outcomes; lifestyle and vascular stiffness in young adults; and diabetes risk factors, including intervention efforts in minority populations and developing countries.

Dr. Kriska received her undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Dayton and her Masters of Science in exercise physiology from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kriska also earned her doctorate in epidemiology from Pitt and completed her post-doctoral studies in cardiovascular epidemiology for the NIDDK in Phoenix, Arizona.​

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